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March 31, 2011 Rock’s Maron Brown earns All-America honor BEAVERTON, Ore. - Maron Brown, Slippery Rock University senior forward from Salisbury, Md., added another award to his collection this week when the Division II Bulletin named him as an honorable mention All-America performer.
March 30, 2011 Rock’s baseball coach reaches 800-win milestone Slippery Rock University’s Jeff Messer became the 26th NCAA Division II head baseball coach to record his 800th win. Messer reached the milestone Sunday with his team's 3-1 win over West Liberty University in the first game of a doubleheader at Jack Critchfield Park. He added his 801st career win with a 5-1 victory in the second game of the twinbill.
March 29, 2011 Kathleen Jack earns Outstanding Service Award Kathleen Jack, executive staff assistant in Slippery Rock University’s University Advancement Division, has been selected to receive the 2011 President’s Award for Outstanding Service and will be honored at the University’s 2 p.m., April 3, Academic Honors Convocation.
March 28, 2011 Alan Levy wins award for scholarly, creative achievement Alan Levy, Slippery Rock University history professor and author of “Floyd Patterson: A Boxer and a Gentleman,” the life story of the legendary boxer, has earned the 2010-11 President’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement for 2010-11.
March 25, 2011 Kimberly Smith wins SRU’s outstanding teacher award Kimberly Smith, Slippery Rock University assistant professor of exercise and rehabilitative sciences, has been selected to receive the 2011 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award will be presented at SRU’s Academic Honors Convocation at 2 p.m., April 3, in Morrow Field House. The event will also honor nearly 2,812 SRU dean's list students, 60 Presidential Scholar honorees, 636 academic scholarship recipients, 143 scholar athletes, 11 community service learning volunteers and the other 2011 President's Award recipients.
March 24, 2011 SRU Alumni Association names 2011 Outstanding Man, Woman SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University Alumni Association has named Christine Lundblad, a senior chemistry and dance major, the 2011 Outstanding Senior Woman of the Year, and Andrew Ryan, a senior environmental geoscience/environmental science major, the 2011 Outstanding Senior Man.
March 24, 2011 SRU symposium features student research, creative activity SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Research papers and posters from across the Slippery Rock University academic spectrum will be showcased March 31 when the University hosts its 11th Annual Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.
March 24, 2011 SRU volleyball standout, now DeSales coach, earns honor LEXINGTON, Ky. - Michele Ide Zabinski, former Slippery Rock University women's volleyball standout, 2004 SRU graduate and current DeSales University head volleyball coach, is a recipient of a "Thirty Under 30 Award" presented by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
March 23, 2011 SRU says ‘Oui’ to French Film Festival SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Students and local residents attending Slippery Rock University’s first French Film Festival are sure to say c’est bon (that’s good). The free festival, which begins tonight, includes five films and provides insight into different aspects of French culture, including the Paris ballet, financial conflict in French-speaking Mali and the life of designer Coco Chanel.
March 23, 2011 SRU graduate earns honors at West Virginia University Teresa Pershing, a 2006 Slippery Rock University English graduate, has won the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award at West Virginia University where she is completing her doctoral work.
March 22, 2011 Math/dance major earns PASSHE Ali-Zaidi award nomination SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Samantha Corvino, a senior mathematics and dance major from East Greenbush, N.Y., is Slippery Rock University’s nominee for the Syed Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence, which will be awarded by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
March 22, 2011 SRU senior earns prestigious Oxford doctoral program slot SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Christine Lundblad, a Slippery Rock University chemistry major from Pittsburgh, will cross the pond to the island of Stonehenge, Harry Potter and The Beatles, but not just to see the sights. Lundblad has been accepted into the doctor of philosophy program in inorganic chemistry at the University of Oxford.
March 22, 2011 ‘RecycleMania’ sweeps campus April 4-8 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University will once again participate in the national “RecycleMania” program April 4-8, with a new element. To raise awareness of the program, a recycling pile showing the University’s tonnage collected during the week will be on display in the Physical Therapy Building parking lot.
March 22, 2011 SRU’s Itzi Meztli tapped for Visiting Scholars Program Itzi Meztli, Slippery Rock University assistant professor of English, has been selected from among 300 professors nationwide to participate in the 2011 Educating Testing Service Visiting Scholarship Program at Princeton, N.J.
March 21, 2011 SRU Child Care Center plans ‘Camp Rock’ summer program SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University Student Government Association Child Care Center will host an open house from 5-6:30 p.m., March 29, to share plans
March 21, 2011 SRU men’s basketball standout Maron Brown earns honors Maron Brown, a Slippery Rock University men’s basketball standout from Salisbury, Md., has received three significant postseason honors to cap an impressive season on the hardwood. Brown, a senior forward, was named a first-team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division performer for the second consecutive season.
March 18, 2011 Trustees re-name football stadium to honor coach Mihalik SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s Council of Trustees paid homage to George Mihalik, longtime SRU head football coach, by re-naming the campus football stadium the Mihalik-Thompson Stadium in his honor.
March 18, 2011 SRU earns College of Distinction honor Slippery Rock University has been selected as a College of Distinction for its exemplary commitment to supporting engaged students, great teaching, vibrant communities and successful outcomes. SRU is the only public university included among the 14 Pennsylvania colleges and universities recognized by Student Horizons, the Austin, Texas-based corporation that runs the program.
March 17, 2011 SRU Communication Week offers student-made videos SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s communication department will celebrate “Communication Week” March 28-April 1 with the showing of student-created videos, fun and a gala with SRU alumni.
March 17, 2011 SRU begins $7 million baghouse construction SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –Slippery Rock University launched a long-awaited $7 million construction project this week designed to help retain the University’s standing as an environmentally friendly campus while simultaneously providing economical heat and hot water to the 660-acre campus.
March 17, 2011 SRU annual Holocaust remembrance focuses on Nazi photos SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –Joseph White, research assistant at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and expert in European history, will present “Not ‘Just Nazis at Play.’ Contextualizing the Hocker Album,” when Slippery Rock University observes it annual Holocaust Remembrance Program at 4 p.m. March 29.
March 17, 2011 SRU ‘Diversity and Democracy’ series begins Monday SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –Joseph White, research assistant at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and expert in European history, will present “Not ‘Just Nazis at Play.’ Contextualizing the Hocker Album,” when Slippery Rock University observes it annual Holocaust Remembrance Program at 4 p.m. March 29.
March 17, 2011 SRU PR staff nabs national Higher Education Marketing awards A poster titled “Want to Change the World?” promoting a Slippery Rock University political science degree, and the University’s viewbook, designed to attract potential students to campus have earned honors from the Higher Education Marketing Report. The honors are part of the 26th Annual Educational Advertising Awards program. More than 2,600 entries were received from more than 1,000 U.S. and international colleges, universities and secondary schools.
March 16, 2011 Music faculty perform Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –Six Slippery Rock University music faculty will perform songs from “Birth of the Cool,” a classic Miles Davis recording, when they present a “Faculty Jazz Concert” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in SRU’s Swope Music Hall. The group will play nine of the album’s 12 songs, including its most enduring number “Boplicity.”
March 16, 2011 SRU earns College of Distinction honor SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University has been selected as a College of Distinction for its exemplary commitment to supporting engaged students, great teaching, vibrant communities and successful outcomes.
March 16, 2011 SRU PR Office scores CUPRAP honors ‘hat trick’ SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s University Public Relations Office scored a ‘hat trick,’ nabbing three awards in annual competition sponsored by CUPPAP- The Association of Communicators in Education. SRU won a Gold CUPPIE Award and a Bronze CUPPIE in the print publications/ posters category, and a Silver CUPPIE in the print publications/direct mail category.
March 15, 2011 SRU president outlines potential state budget cut impact SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Promising Slippery Rock University would not panic in the face of a $22.1 million potential budget shortfall, President Robert Smith called on faculty, staff and students to be informed participants in the budget planning process, and to advocate for higher education during the state budget process.
March 15, 2011 Daugherty earns All-America honors; Hendershot takes 10th ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Cameron Daugherty, a Slippery Rock University men’s track star from Mililani, Hawaii, earned All-America honors in pole vault, and Whitney Hendershot, an SRU women’s track star from Salamanca, N.Y., finished 10th in the high jump competition at last Saturday’s NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships.
March 14, 2011 Japan Earthquake shakes SRU faculty with family in homeland SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – While the 8.9 Richter Scale earthquake was in northeast Japan, half a world away from Slippery Rock University, its repercussions are being felt on campus where at least two faculty members have found their families are safe, but shaken.
March 14, 2011 Solano gets Gay & Lesbian Community Center board position Roger Solano, associate professor of business at Slippery Rock University, has been elected the newest board member of the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburg and will be in charge of all aspects of information technology management.
March 8, 2011 SRU Graduate List Fall 2010 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –area students were among those graduating (undergraduates and graduates) from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania at winter commencement ceremonies.
March 8, 2011 Budding scientists take honors, scholarship at PJAS event SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Marc Williams, a senior at Quigley Catholic High School in Seven Fields, and Jacob Smith, a junior at Venango Catholic High School in Clarion, took top honors, including four-year scholarships to Slippery Rock University, in the 54th Annual Region IX meeting of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, hosted at SRU.
March 04, 2011 15 SRU indoor track and field members earn USTFCCCA honors NEW ORLEANS - Nine women and six men on Slippery Rock University’s indoor track and field team have earned spots on the inaugural U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Regional teams.
March 3, 2011 SRU’s Banner project ‘progressing as planned’ SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s $4.6 million upgrade to a new student information system is progressing near schedule. The admissions and enrollment management student communication module that allows prospective students to apply online is up and running and the fall class registration system is expected to be online before month’s end.
March 3, 2011 SRU displays rare collection of Japanese prints for first time SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –Slippery Rock University will display an historic collection of Japanese woodblock prints for the first time March 14-18, including rare originals by the granddaddies of 19th century printmaking – Utagawe Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai.
March 3 2011 SRU faculty contingent helps school understand inclusion SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – A contingent of four Slippery Rock University education faculty spent five days in St. Thomas and St. Croix, Virgin Islands, helping school administrators there better understand the necessity and dynamics of incorporating special needs students into the regular classroom.
March 3 2011 SRU Police Chief Simmons urges safety during spring break SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Before Slippery Rock University’s students head off for spring break, Police Chief Michael Simmons hopes they will take few minutes to protect their belonging while they are gone.
March 3, 2011 Annual SRU Baker Scholarship Concert premieres Barr work SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University music department’s eighth annual Dwight and Jeane Baker Memorial Scholarship Concert will include the premiere of a work by Stephen Barr, SRU assistant professor of music.
March 3 2011 SRU singers join ‘Marvin does Marvin’ PSO-Pops concert SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Five Slippery Rock University students will be part of the annual All-Star College Chorus when “Marvin does Marvin” is presented by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Pops March 10-13 in Pittsburgh.
March 3 2011 SRU hosts March 17 marijuana legalization debate SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The University Program Board at Slippery Rock University will bring the debate as to whether or not to legalize marijuana to campus March 17 when it sponsors the “Great Debate,” pitting Steve Hager, longtime editor of High Times Magazine, against Robert Stutman, a Federal Drug Enforcement Administration veteran, in a frank discussion of the issues.
March 03, 2011 Inline Hockey Club at SRU earns national ranking The Inline Hockey Club at Slippery Rock University, ranked No. 4 in the nation, finished the season with a 13-4-1 record took second place in the conference. The team prided itself on being a deep scoring team, averaging 6.8 goals per game while finishing second in the conference for scoring. Ryan McGeehan, an education major from Grove City, and Josh Newton, a biology major from Irwin, led the way in points with 31 each.
March 2, 2011 QR Code provides fast break to Web sites, sports stats SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – You may have noticed squares with seemingly random black-and-white patterns recently on your bills, magazine advertisements and even Slippery Rock University enrollment and sports publications and wondered about them. Were they some sort of government tracking device or ink smudges? No. The bar codes are a technology many organizations, including SRU, are using to connect people with each other and to multimedia digital content.
March 02, 2011 Nicole Kurash, ’00, becomes youth program director Nicole Kurash, a 2000 Slippery Rock University graduate, has been named director of inpatient youth programs at Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh. Gateway is a non-profit organization that provides addiction treatment for adults and youth.
March 02, 2011 SRU’s Fusco drafted by Minnesota Vikings NEW YORK - Brandon Fusco, a Slippery Rock University senior offensive center from Cranberry Township, was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft Saturday from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Fusco was selected with the seventh pick of the sixth round and was the 172nd overall pick, becoming the highest drafted player in SRU program history and becoming the first player drafted since 1989.
March 1, 2011 NASA and SRU’s Patrick Burkhart set sights on Mars SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – In June, Patrick Burkhart, Slippery Rock University professor of geography, geology and the environment, will land on “Mars.” Burkhart will step onto a plain of red dust, sand and rock beneath a black and starry sky and conduct research.
March 1, 2011 Men’s Ice Hockey Club at SRU takes CHMA title The Men’s Ice Hockey Club at Slippery Rock University won the College Hockey Mid-America championship for the second consecutive year this winter with an 11-3 league record and added the CHMA playoff title last weekend in competition at the Wheeling (W. Va.) Civic Center.

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